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461 



Anas Anfer domejlicus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 197. 9. |3. — Faun. Suec. N° 114. /?.— . 



Scop. Ann. i. N° 6g.—Kram. El. p. 338. 4. $.—Frifcb. pi. 157. 

 L'Oye domeftique, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 262. 1. 



Tame Goofe, Rail Syn. p. 136. A. 3. — Will. Orn. p. 358. I. pi. 75. 



Leu. Ma/. 



*"pHIS is the Grey-Lag Goofe in a ftate of domefKcation, and 

 from which it varies in colour, though much lefs fo than 

 either the Mallard or Cock, being ever more or lefs verging to 

 grey ; though in all cafes the whitenefs of the vent, and upper 

 tail coverts, is manifeft : frequently found quite white, efpecially 

 the males; and doubts have arifen, which of the two colours 

 fhould have the preference in point of eating. 



Tame Geefe are no where feen in greater quantities than in the 

 fens of Lincoln/hire, many perfons keeping no lefs than a thoiifand 

 breeders. The ufes of the quills and feathers are too well known 

 throughout Europe * to be particularly noticed : for the fake of 

 thefe the birds are {tripped while alive, once in the year for 

 the firft, and no lefs than five times for the laft : the firft pluck- 

 ing is about Lady-Day, for both quills and feathers ; the other 

 four between that and Michaelmas, for feathers only : in gene- 

 ral the birds are no confiderable fufferers, though fometimes, 

 if the cold weather fhould come on, numbers die in confequence. 

 The pofTeflbrs of thefe, except in the apparently cruel ufage of 



• In the countries bordering on the Levant, and throughout AJta, the ufe of 

 Gcofe-feathers is utterly unknown; we find matraffes fluffed with ivocl, camels- 

 hair, or cotton, inftead. Pliny, indeed, mentions the ufe of lolfters of feathers 

 to lay the head upon, in his time; but their being put to this ufe now is not. 

 eertain. 



plucking 



zi. 



Var. A. 



f- TAME 



GOOSE. 



Description, 



Place akb- 

 Manners* 



